Hens program now has NCAAs as annual goal

11:28 PM,
Mar. 21, 2014

Delaware forward Marvin King-Davis scores two against Michigan State.

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Twice Delaware has reached the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, then made it back the next year.

In 1992, the Blue Hens were unbeaten North Atlantic Conference champions when they secured the school's first NCAA bid in dominant fashion. They pulled two road upsets as a No. 3 conference tournament seed to return the next year, with some of the same key players, such as Brian Pearl, Spencer Dunkley and Anthony Wright.

In 1998, Delaware went back as champions of the renamed conference, now America East. But the Hens were even better, with many of the same players, plus the addition of Maine ...